Ie9 block a website on admin account

thingemajib · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:10

i am the only user on this laptop, and i sometimes leave my laptop running for downloads/virus scans and whatnot when im not around, and my friends seem to find to hilarious to leave a certain meat spinning website running for my return. Any way i can block it short of locking my door (which i leave unlocked for other reasons)?

SoundsGood · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:13

Have a look at parental controls in IE options, or put an entry in to your hosts file

marc2003 · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:14

set a password on your account and lock the machine when you're away from it.

thingemajib · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:30

parental controls dont work when theres only the one account. elaborate on this hosts file thing. Not really upto speed on stuff like this.

And i do have a password, its just locking it generally pauses whatever is running and kills the wifi, making it rather pointless for me...

marc2003 · 31 Oct 2011 at 23:55

thingemajib said:
And i do have a password, its just locking it generally pauses whatever is running and kills the wifi, making it rather pointless for me...

well something is wrong there. locking your pc should have no effect whatsoever on running programs. unless by lock you mean you've been putting it to sleep which is another thing entirely.....

yashiro · 1 Nov 2011 at 00:02

Windows Key + L.

thingemajib · 1 Nov 2011 at 01:01

ahhh, my bad. Any way of making the pc automatically lock after x minutes of inactivity as opposed to going to sleep?

marc2003 · 1 Nov 2011 at 08:09

set a screensaver with the timeout you want and make sure the option to require a password is enabled.

thingemajib · 2 Nov 2011 at 04:42

marc2003 said:
set a screensaver with the timeout you want and make sure the option to require a password is enabled.

boom. Ta very much.

Akagi · 23 Jan 2013 at 12:45

yashiro said:
Windows Key + L.

Thanks, never knew that

*edit* oh **** not again...

ubern00b · 23 Jan 2013 at 14:34

A quick and simple bodge job would be to stick an entry in the hosts file pointing the website to 127.0.0.1. Just an alternative method

asim18 · 23 Jan 2013 at 18:26

ubern00b said:
A quick and simple bodge job would be to stick an entry in the hosts file pointing the website to 127.0.0.1. Just an alternative method

There are hundreds of these websites

When they see it doesn't work they'll quickly find another.

We used to do this all the time at college. Anyone who left the class would get it

ubern00b · 24 Jan 2013 at 01:00

I am well aware of mirrors. I was merely answering a method of accomplishing the question that was asked.

asim18 · 25 Jan 2013 at 03:06

ubern00b said:
I am well aware of mirrors. I was merely answering a method of accomplishing the question that was asked.

Yeah mate, the method you suggested is great. I would recommend it myself.